Subject: Re: HAB: liberal eugenics
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:30:17 


Dear Bob,

I am hesitant to write this so apologies in advance :-) I worry that I am 
missing pearls of wisdom because I can't decipher your *stream of 
consciousness* posts adequately enough.

Eg.

>His pessimism is relieved only by a kinda wistful pis aller on the species'
>capacity for moral auto-poiesis. That perhaps, Woman can, beginning from
>Kant's categorically moral  autotelic constitution of human dasein, create 
>a
>new, universal-secular, ethos of the species. That is, it appears, only by
>way of a moral-cultural rump, not a society; like the monks devotedly
>tending the lamp of civilization thru the dark ages.
>
>...but, don't it seem the sub-text here is still after all not Reason, but,
>Traditon?...that the text begs a continuation of Aristotle-St. Paul & co,
>all the old forms of the auto-poetic cultural heritance of the West, not a
>discarding?...and the q is still: how can you even think "ethical" without 
>a
>tradition/history? ...indeed, the case of the brave new dark age, how can a
>person be a person?


That said; the problem is mine I realise. Is there any chance of you 
indulging me (and possibly others) by *boring* up some of your posts so I/we 
might be able to engage?

Cheers

MattP

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